Bedstead.



F. E. HALL.

BBDSTEAD.

APPLICATION FILED JUNIHQ, 1908.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

(Ill/lll).

UNrrEn eriirns PATENT OFFICE.

BEDSTE AD.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Application filed June 19, 1908. Serial No. 439.380.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, FREDERICK E, IIALL, a citizen f the United States',residing :it Chicago. in the county of Cook' und State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in edstends, of which thefollowing is e specification.

My invention relates to improve-.ments in the means for fastening orscouring together the darts of e metallic bednteed, especially thehi'fllow rods or tubes of the heed or foot. boards. By the employmentof' my novel fastening or securing ineens, which constitutes a sin lehook-shaped rivet, I ein cnabled to ho d togetherl all ports of the heedor foot of the bedsteed. This single hook rivet is, of course, simple inconstruction und economical to produc y, and when in. phice it is soneatly concealed ns to be prncticnll)Y invisible.

On the accompanying drawing, which forms e part of this specification, Ihave illustrated a` desirable embodiment of this invention, :nid on thedroiving Figure l is sin elevation of e` heed or foot board ol emetallic bedsteed; and Fig. 2 is e fragmentary elevation, partly insection, illustrating in detail and on an enlarged Seide my improvedfastening Ineens for holding together the ports of the construction.shown in Fig. 1.

'lhe head or foot hoard hes e mein or principal hollow tube I0 bent toforni the` two parallel upright hollow corner posts Il und 12, theintermediate section. or portion l of tho tubo constituting the topriiil or lnir ol' the hoed or foot lioiird. 'llic device is alsoSupplied with :L tuhuhn' rziil or bottoni liur lll. the ends ol whichenter upertures l5 nud lt' ot the posts und extend inwardly to theinterior ol the posts. 'lhc bottoni l'nce ol: the middle or centralnection I3 of the bent tulle l() is provided with n plurality ol`apertures I7 extending into its hollow interior, the top faire of thehollow ruil or lun" I4 heine: provided with holes I8 therethrough in:dirne nient with the apertures 17. The bedstend is equipped with n`plurality of hollow tubular upright spindles 1I)7 the ends of whichextend through the apertures I7 und 1S und preferably into the tuhcs l():md I4 .suiii-,iently no ns to Contact with their inner Surfin-es oiposite the holes. The central hollow-spind e lll et its upper endterminates soinewlnit short of the top inner surface of the `tube I3,:is is clearl)T indicati-d in Fig. Axinlly ol' this central spindle thebottoni woll of the tube Il supplied n ith :in nperture 20 for n purposehereiinil'ter indicaited. Extended longitudinullv of this centralspindle, und disposed inside of the sanne. l provide n long rivet 21lizivinihr nl ils upper end n lim,k-slinped portion 23 which extends outof the upper end of the spindle It? having the intermediate nicnilier J2in contro-t with the upper wzill of the tul'ie It), and the end ol theextreme end portion 23 in contact with the lower well of the tuhe I0."l'he hot toni end of the rivet 2l extends through the nperture lllmidis hendcd over :it LLI so :is to Iirinl);Y hind the parts of the hemdor I'oot lionrd securely together, 'this heard living .so located on theunder side ol' the ruil or tulle lil ma to he practically out olI sight.liv this simple incuns, tlint is by n single rivet or rod, l :indrigidly' leisten together :ill the parts constituting the head or I'oolhoord.

The liooli end 22--2I ol' the rod or rivet 21 is Iirst pzissed throughthe aperture 17 in the bottoni ivnll. ol the ruil or tithe lll, which is:nlnpled to tn'roinlnodnte the end of the Jontrnl or middle spindle.Vl`l|e upper ends of the vnrioun spindles nre then innerted in theproper upertures I7, the loiver ruil o1* tubo 14 is then lil-ought toposition so that its holes I.\' will receive the liottoni ends oly thespindles, und then the post portions Il and l2 of the hedeteinl :irecruised to zipproueh erich other so :is to receive through the holes:ind lti thc ends ol the lube I-I.` Subsequently, the end ol the rod orrivet 21 is liended :it ,BIYI, which construction und assemlilintrf` ollparts viruses u rigid sind lirni uniting tlieriol, without possibilityor liuliilitv of displacement. lt preferred` the headingr of the rivetnnrv occur prior to the insertion ol" the ends. ol` tuln- I i into theapertures of thc upright iosts.

.i\l1 tough lV llave .shown und described a ,simple :and economicalconstruction for nietullie licdiitendi, il is lo lu' understood tllflitthis invention is not limited and restricted t0 the prerise :ind carnet.strnz'turul tentures set forth, iiecttuse the invention muy be uned innlonv relations :und the parte constituting the structure set. forth muyhe varied in nniterial respect,` without de )arturo fron] the.substance. rind essence ol the invention.

l cluini:

l. ln u metallic hedstced, the combination :nu ennhled lo securely of apair of cross tubes one at least of which is transversely apertured, ahollow s indle disposed between said eross tubes ant having one endfitted in said aperture, its other end abutting against the other erosstube, and a rivet or rod located in said s indle and having one endextended out of t at end of the tube passed through said aperture andabutting against opposite interior surfaces of the cross tube, the otherend of said rod or rivet being extended through and having meanspreventing withdrawal through the (iompanion cross tube, substantiall)vas described.

2. In a metallic bedstead, the combination of a pair of cross tubesapcrtured in alinement on their adjacent faces, one or more tubularspindles between said cross tubes and having their ends litted in saidapertures, and a rivet or rod located in one` of said spindles andhaving one end extended out of an end of its containing spindle andabutting against ing extended transversely through the eoni.

panion cross tube and headed at the exterior thereof', substantially asdescribed.

3. In a metallic bedstead, the eoinbination of one or more tubularspindles, a pair of cross tubes apertured to reeeive the op )osito endsol" said spindles, and a rivet or rod] posi ioned in one of saidspindh-,sund having e hook-sbaped portion at one end extended out ofthecontainingspindle and abutting against opposite interior surfaces of oneof said cross tubes, the other end ol said rivet or rod being extendedtransversclyr through the companion cross tube und headed extrrnall)rthereof, substmitially as described.

FRED lt l( di E. ll Aldi.

